Who Made The Blood List For 2012?

A show of hands from those of you keeping score at home. Who knows what the Black List is? No worries if you do not. It's a list of top-voted screenplays that have not been produced. Now who knows what the Blood List is? Very good. The Blood List was created by Kailey Marsh, a literary manager / producer at Station 3 to fill the same role for genre specific screenplays. These are the top 13 genre-focused screenplays that have not yet been produced. To explain:

The top 13 most liked, unproduced, dark
genre screenplays of the year. A calendar year for a script to be
considered on the list is from October 31st 2011 to October 31st, 2012. Genres included on the list are:
Horror, thriller, sci-fi, dark drama, and dark comedies. This year 117 feature executives voted.
Each executive chose their top 3 favorite dark genre scripts of the year.There were 99 different scripts voted
for, and this year a script had to receive 5 votes or more to make the list.

The list was released today and you can peruse it for yourself below.

25 Votes

Script Name: THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM

Writer(s) Name: Tyler Marceca

Logline: A man begins an investigation
into his wife's mysterious death, only to find that it goes much
deeper than he imagined.

Logline: When alien crafts land across
the world, a linguist expert is recruited by the military to
determine whether they come in peace or are a threat. As she learns
to communicate with the aliens, she begins experiencing vivid
flashbacks that become the key to unlocking the greater mystery about
the true purpose of their visit.

Genre: Sci-fi drama

Agent(s): Barbara Dreyfus & Jon
Huddle (UTA)

Manager(s): Julie Bloom (Art/Work
Entertainment)

Status: Set up at 21 Laps.

13 Votes

Script Name: FEBRUARY

Writer(s) Name: Osgood Perkins

Logline: An unidentified young woman
makes a pilgrimage to the site of a demonic possession at an
all-girls boarding school in the dead of winter.

Logline: Based on true events, the
story follows an Inspector during his forty year search for three

siblings taken from an Australian Beach
in 1966.

Genre: Thriller

Agent(s): Bill Weinstein & Rob
Herting (Verve)

Manager(s): Peter Dealbert & Susan
Solomon (Principato/Young)

Status: In negotiations.

11 Votes

Script Name: INTERSTATE 5

Writer(s) Name: Seth M. Sherwood

Logline: The son of an infamous serial
killer and the daughter of one of the victims go on the road in hopes
of tracking the killer down only to find themselves haunted by
demonic forces intent on driving them mad.

JACOBS LADDER meets NATURAL BORN
KILLERS

Genre: Psychological thriller

Agent(s): N/A

Manager(s): Kailey Marsh (Station 3)

Status: Available.

9 Votes

Script Name: SOMNIA

Writer(s) Name: Mike Flanagan &
Jeff Howard

Logline: A couple who recently lost
their son take in a young boy as a foster child. They soon discover
that the boy's dreams manifest themselves in the real world when he
sleeps.

Genre: Horror

Agent(s): Sheryl Petersen, Debbie
Deuble & Chris

Ridenhour (APA)

Manager(s): Nicholas Bogner
(Affirmative Entertainment)

Status: In negotiations.

8 Votes

Script Name: DARKFALL

Writer Name: TS Faull

Logline: A group of residents must
survive the night in their apartment complex as they slowly learn
that DARKFALL (the rising of demons to take over the Earth) is upon
them.

Genre: Supernatural thriller

Agent(s): N/A

Manager(s): Michael Botti (Industry
Entertainment)

Status: Available.

8 Votes

Script Name: VIRAL

Writer Name: Dustin T. Benson

Logline: Told from the 1st person point
of view via the helmet camera of a bio-safety suit a female scientist
searches for her missing daughter in a quarantined area of Manhattan.
I AM LEGEND meets OUTBREAK.

Genre: Thriller w/ Action & Sci-fi
elements.

Agent(s): Ramses IsHak & Mike
Sheresky (UTA)

Manager(s): Brooklyn Weaver (Energy
Entertainment)

Status: Adrian Askarieh (Prime
Universe) & Brooklyn

Weaver (Energy Entertainment) attached
to produce.

7 Votes

Script Name: THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD

Writer(s) Name: James Breen

Logline: The mute servant of a
modern-day vampire returns home to her estranged family twenty years
after her disappearance. As she grows closer to her family, her
loyalties to her master are finally tested.

Genre: Vampire Horror

Agent(s): N/A

Manager(s): Jarrod Murray & Allard
Cantor (Epicenter)

Status: Available.

6 Votes

Script Name: SHUT IN

Writer(s) Name: T.J. Cimfel & David
White

Logline: An agoraphobic woman must fend
off a home invasion while she protects a dark secret.

Genre: Thriller/Horror

Agent(s): N/A

Manager(s): Marc Manus (Manus
Entertainment)

Status: Available.

5 Votes

Script Name: PESTE

Writer Name: Babarba Marshall

Logline: A 16 year old girl begins to
record her life for her high school media class just as a terrifying virus begins to spread.

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror

Agent(s): Debbie Deuble & Lee
Dinstman (APA)

Manager(s): Ava Jamshidi (Industry
Entertainment)

Status: Set up at IM Global w/Sherryl
Clark producing.

So who knows. Perhaps in the months to come we could be writing about these very screenplays being made.

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THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM- I remember reading that screenplay awhile ago and it makes for some good reading, if they can translate that well to the big screen and keep the momentum going it could be a REALLY good thriller. Lots of neat twists and turns.